Canadian Last Name Generator

Surnames as they are found across Canada

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1,000 surnames as they are found across Canada, from Smith, MacDonald and Tremblay to Hiscock, Kowalchuk, Friesen, Singh, Wong and Kunuk. Surnames only, one per entry, with no first names attached.

About Canadian last names

Canadian surnames follow the map. The English, Scottish and Irish core is everywhere, and Smith is widely reported as the most common surname in the country, but each region adds its own layer. Newfoundland names such as Hiscock, Pardy and Noseworthy go back to the English West Country and the southeast of Ireland. Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island are full of Highland names such as MacIsaac, MacEachern and Gillis, and the German-speaking Protestants who settled Lunenburg in the 1750s left Zwicker, Hirtle and Corkum along Nova Scotia's South Shore.

The Prairies read differently again. Mennonite families brought Friesen, Penner and Reimer to Manitoba from the 1870s, Icelanders founded Gimli and left Sigurdson and Stefanson, and Ukrainian homesteaders arriving from the 1890s gave the West Kowalchuk, Melnyk and Hnatyshyn. In the big cities, Li, Wong, Singh, Gill, Patel, Santos and Nguyen are everyday names.

A limited share of the list is French Canadian and Acadian, led by Tremblay, which is widely reported as the most common surname in Quebec, and written with its accents, as in Côté and Lévesque. The list also holds family names carried by First Nations, Métis and Inuit families, such as Cardinal, Pitawanakwat, Desjarlais and Kunuk. Many Inuit surnames were only registered around 1970, when families chose one, often an older relative's personal name.

How to choose Canadian last names

Let the surname place the character. A Noseworthy or a Pardy suggests Newfoundland, a MacIsaac or a Gillis suggests Cape Breton, a Zwicker suggests Lunenburg, a Friesen suggests southern Manitoba and a Kowalchuk suggests the Prairies.
Keep the family's own spelling of Mac and Mc. MacDonald and McDonald, like MacKenzie and McKenzie, are treated as different surnames by the people who carry them, so pick one form and stay with it.
French names are listed with their accents, as in Bélanger, Gagné and Thériault. Keep them for a character in Quebec or Acadian New Brunswick. In English-speaking provinces the same names are often written without them.
Family names such as Koostachin, Ahenakew, Aglukkaq and Nappaaluk belong to living First Nations and Inuit families and are tied to particular communities. Do your own reading before you give one to a character.
Match the surname to the arrival story. A fifth-generation Ontario farm family is more likely to be Hodgins, Casselman or Armstrong, while a family that came to Surrey or Brampton in the 1980s could be Dhaliwal, Grewal or Sandhu.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most common last name in Canada?

Smith is widely reported as the most common surname in Canada, and Tremblay as the most common in Quebec. Past those two, the order changes with the source and the year, so this page does not rank its names. Both are in the list, alongside other very familiar Canadian surnames such as Brown, Martin, Wilson, MacDonald, Roy, Gagnon, Lee and Singh.

Why are both MacDonald and McDonald in the list?

Mac and Mc mean the same thing, son of, but families keep one spelling and treat the other as a different name. Both forms are common in Canada, so the list gives MacDonald and McDonald, and MacKenzie and McKenzie, as separate entries. Most other Highland names appear once, in the Mac form that is common in Nova Scotia, such as MacNeil, MacKinnon and MacGillivray.

Does the list include French Canadian last names?

Yes, as a limited share of the list. You will find Quebec names such as Tremblay, Gagnon, Bouchard and Pelletier, and Acadian names such as LeBlanc, Cormier, Arsenault and Robichaud. For a list that is French Canadian from start to finish, including the old dit names, use the French Canadian Last Name Generator.

Are there surnames that are distinctly Canadian?

Some surnames are far more visible in Canada than anywhere else. Newfoundland names like Noseworthy and Stuckless, Lunenburg names like Rhodenizer and Slauenwhite, and Prairie Mennonite names like Wiebe and Toews are everyday in their regions and much less familiar in most other countries. Family names such as Kunuk, Pootoogook and Manitowabi come from Inuit and First Nations families and began here.

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A: 32 names

Aariak
Aatami
Abbott
Abdi
Adams
Adeyemi
Aglukkaq
Ahenakew
Ahmadi
Ahmed
Aitken
Ali
Allen
Almeida
Amagoalik
Anawak
Anderson
Andrews
Andrusiak
Antle
Antonopoulos
Aquino
Archibald
Armstrong
Arreak
Arsenault
Ashevak
Ashoona
Atkinson
Atwood
Aujla
Awashish

B: 66 names

Babiuk
Bains
Baker
Bakke
Bakker
Baldwin
Ballantyne
Banman
Bannerman
Baptiste
Baran
Barkley
Barkman
Barrett
Bartlett
Bates
Bauer
Bauman
Bautista
Beardy
Beaton
Beaulieu
Bédard
Bélanger
Belcourt
Bell
Bellegarde
Belliveau
Bennett
Bergen
Bergeron
Bergstrom
Bernier

B, continued

Bezanson
Billard
Bilous
Bishop
Bjarnason
Blackmore
Blais
Boateng
Bodnar
Bolivar
Bouchard
Boucher
Boudreau
Boutilier
Bowman
Boychuk
Boyko
Bragg
Brar
Braun
Brisson
Brown
Brubacher
Bruce
Buchanan
Burgess
Burke
Burns
Burry
Bursey
Burton
Butler
Butt

C: 53 names

Cabral
Calabrese
Callihoo
Cameron
Campbell
Cardinal
Cardoso
Carlson
Caron
Carrière
Carroll
Carter
Casselman
Chalmers
Chan
Charbonneau
Charron
Cheechoo
Cheema
Chen
Chernoff
Cheung
Chiasson
Chisholm
Chomyn
Chow
Christensen
Clark
Cloutier
Cluett
Cohen
Collins
Colpitts
Comeau
Conrad
Cook
Coombs
Cooper
Corkum
Cormier
Costa
Côté
Courchene
Couture
Creelman
Cressman
Crocker
Crouse
Crowchild
Crowell
Crowshoe
Cunningham
Currie

D: 53 names

D'Amico
Dabrowski
Dafoe
Danyluk
Dauphinee
Davidson
Davies
Davis
Dawe
Dawson
De Jong
De Santis
Debassige
DeBoer
Deis
Delaney
Delorme
Demchuk
Demers
Deol
Desjardins
Desjarlais
Desmond
Desrochers
Dhaliwal
Dhillon
Di Giovanni
Di Pietro
Diachuk
Dickie
Dicks
Dixon
Dmytriw
Doane
Doerksen
Doherty
Donovan
Dorey
Dosanjh
Doucet
Douglas
Downey
Doyle
Driedger
Drummond
Dubé
Dulmage
Dumont
Duncan
Dunphy
Dupuis
Dyck
Dykstra

E: 21 names

Earle
Eby
Edwards
Ehman
Einarson
Eisenhauer
Eisnor
Ell
Elliott
Embree
Empey
Enns
Epp
Erasmus
Erb
Erickson
Ernst
Esau
Estabrooks
Evans
Evic

F: 38 names

Falcone
Falk
Farah
Farrell
Fedorak
Feener
Feenstra
Fehr
Feltham
Ferguson
Fernandes
Ferrari
Ferreira
Fiddler
Fifield
Findlay
Fischer
Fisher
Fitzgerald
Fletcher
Flett
Fleury
Flynn
Foley
Folk
Fong
Forbes
Fortin
Fournier
Fowler
Fraser
Fretz
Friesen
Froese
Fudge
Funk
Furlong
Furtado

G: 39 names

Gagné
Gagnon
Galbraith
Gallagher
Gallant
Garcia
Gauthier
Gawryluk
Geldart
Georgiou
Gerein
Gibson
Giesbrecht
Gilbert
Gill
Gillespie
Gillis
Gingerich
Girard
Gislason
Gladue
Goertzen
Goldberg
Goodman
Gordon
Goreham
Gorski
Gosse
Gosselin
Goulet
Graham
Grant
Green
Greening
Grenier
Grewal
Griffiths
Gruben
Guenther

H: 59 names

Haddad
Haile
Halfyard
Hall
Halvorson
Hamilton
Hansen
Harasym
Harder
Harding
Harris
Harrison
Harvie
Hassan
Haugen
Hawrylak
Hebb
Hébert
Heidt
Heikkinen
Heinrichs
Heisler
Helgason
Henderson
Hickey
Hiebert
Hildebrand
Hill
Hillier
Himmelman
Hirtle
Hiscock
Hnatyshyn
Ho
Hodgins
Hoekstra
Hofer
Hoffart
Hoffman
Hogan
Hollett
Holowaychuk
Hoover
Hopkins
Horvat
Horvath
Hosseini
Howe
Hrycyk
Hryniuk
Huber
Huck
Huff
Hughes
Huizinga
Hundal
Hunter
Hussain
Hynes

I: 15 names

Iacobucci
Iannuzzi
Ibrahim
Idlout
Igloliorte
Ipeelie
Ireland
Irniq
Irving
Isaak
Isbister
Isfeld
Ittinuar
Ivalu
Ivanov

J: 17 names

Jackson
Janes
Jankowski
Jansen
Janvier
Janzen
Jean-Baptiste
Jensen
Johal
Johannson
Johnson
Johnston
Jollimore
Jones
Joseph
Joshi
Joudrey

K: 59 names

Kakegamic
Kakfwi
Kalmakoff
Karetak
Karimi
Katz
Kaur
Kavanagh
Kean
Keats
Kehler
Kelly
Kennedy
Kent
Keough
Kerr
Khan
Khoury
Kilabuk
Kim
Kindrachuk
King
Kinsman
Kirby
Kitagawa
Klassen
Klein
Kleinsasser
Klymchuk
Knickle
Kohut
Kolodychuk
Komangapik
Konkin
Kooistra
Koop
Koostachin
Korhonen
Koski
Kostyniuk
Kovacevic
Kovacs
Kowalchuk
Kowalski
Kozak
Krahn
Krause
Kravchuk
Kristjanson
Kroeker
Kublu
Kumar
Kuntz
Kunuk
Kupchenko
Kuptana
Kusugak
Kuzyk
Kwok

L: 56 names

L'Hirondelle
Laboucan
Lachance
Lacroix
Lafleur
Lahey
Lahti
Lai
Laine
Lalonde
Lam
Lambert
Landry
Langille
Langlois
Lapointe
Larsen
Lau
Lavoie
Lazaruk
Le
LeBlanc
Leclerc
Lee
Lefebvre
Legault
Léger
Legge
Lehman
Leibel
Lemieux
Lépine
Lessard
Letkeman
Leung
Lévesque
Levy
Lewandowski
Lewis
Li
Lin
Lindgren
Linklater
Littlechild
Liu
Llewellyn
Lloyd
Loewen
Loucks
Lougheed
Louie
Lund
Lush
Lutes
Lynch
Lysenko

M: 101 names

MacAskill
MacAulay
MacCallum
MacDonald
MacDougall
MacEachern
MacFarlane
MacGillivray
MacGregor
MacInnis
MacIntosh
MacIntyre
MacIsaac
MacKay
MacKenzie
MacKinnon
MacLachlan
MacLean
MacLellan
MacLennan
MacLeod
MacMaster
MacMillan
MacNeil
MacPhail
MacPhee
MacPherson
MacQuarrie
MacRae
Mader
Magnusson
Mah
Maharaj
Mahoney
Mak
Makela
Maki
Makowsky
Maksymetz
Malik
Malinowski
Maloney
Mamakwa
Manitowabi
Mann
Marchese
Marshall
Martens
Martin
Massey

M, continued

Materi
Matheson
Matthews
Mazur
Mazurek
Mazza
McCarthy
McCutcheon
McDermott
McDonald
McGowan
McIvor
McKenzie
McLaren
McLaughlin
McNaughton
McQueen
Medeiros
Meekis
Meisner
Melanson
Melnyk
Ménard
Mensah
Merasty
Mercer
Mercier
Mercredi
Merkley
Metatawabin
Meyer
Miller
Mills
Milne
Mitchell
Mohamed
Molnar
Monkman
Moore
Morash
Morelli
Morin
Morrison
Mosher
Mouland
Mugford
Mulder
Munro
Murphy
Murray
Mykytyshyn

N: 29 names

Nadarajah
Nadeau
Nadjiwon
Nagy
Nakamura
Nappaaluk
Nasogaluak
Nassar
Naugler
Nelson
Nepinak
Neudorf
Neufeld
Neumann
Newman
Ng
Nguyen
Nicholson
Nickerson
Niemi
Nikolaidis
Nishimura
Njootli
Noftall
Nolan
Noseworthy
Nowak
Nowicki
Nungak

O: 29 names

O'Brien
O'Connor
O'Donnell
O'Leary
O'Neill
O'Toole
Oake
Obed
Odjig
Ogilvie
Oickle
Oikawa
Okafor
Okalik
Okonkwo
Okpik
Olafson
Oliveira
Olson
Olynyk
Omar
Onyschuk
Oonark
Osborne
Osei
Osmond
Ostapiuk
Ouellet
Oxner

P: 65 names

Pacheco
Pankratz
Papadopoulos
Papatsie
Paquette
Pardy
Parenteau
Park
Parker
Parry
Parsons
Pascual
Patel
Pawliuk
Payne
Pearce
Pearson
Peddle
Pedersen
Pegahmagabow
Pelletier
Pelley
Penner
Penney
Pereira
Perron
Perry
Persaud
Peters
Peterson
Petrenko
Petrov

P, continued

Petrovic
Petryshyn
Pfeifer
Pham
Pickering
Pidruchney
Piercey
Pike
Pinsent
Pitawanakwat
Pitseolak
Pittman
Plett
Poirier
Poitras
Pokiak
Pootoogook
Popescu
Popoff
Popowich
Postma
Potter
Poulin
Powell
Power
Pritchard
Proulx
Prystupa
Publicover
Puddister
Pugliese
Purdy
Putnam

Q: 4 names

Qaqqaq
Quan
Quassa
Quinn

R: 41 names

Rafuse
Rajaratnam
Ramsay
Randhawa
Rankin
Raposo
Rees
Regehr
Reid
Reimer
Reitsma
Rempel
Reyes
Reynolds
Rhodenizer
Richard
Richardson
Rideout
Ridout
Risser
Roberts
Robertson
Robichaud
Robinson
Rochon
Rodrigues
Rodriguez
Romaniuk
Romanow
Rose
Ross
Rossi
Roth
Rowe
Roy
Rumbolt
Russell
Russo
Ruttan
Ryan
Ryerson

S: 94 names

Saari
Saganash
Sahota
Sandhu
Sangha
Santos
Sarkissian
Saunders
Savard
Savoie
Sawatzky
Sawchuk
Schatz
Schell
Schellenberg
Schmidt
Schnare
Schneider
Schultz
Scott
Seaward
Secord
Segal
Séguin
Seibel
Selinger
Semchuk
Semeniuk
Seto
Shah
Shantz
Sharma
Shaver
Shaw
Sheppard
Shevchenko
Shewchuk
Shymko
Siddiqui
Sidhu
Siemens
Sigurdson
Sikorski
Sills
Silva
Simard
Simmons

S, continued

Simms
Simpson
Sinclair
Singh
Sivakumar
Skinner
Slauenwhite
Slobodian
Smith
Snelgrove
Snider
Snook
Snow
Sohal
Sokolov
Sokolowski
Solberg
Sousa
Sparkes
Spence
Spurrell
Squires
St-Pierre
Stadnyk
Stagg
Stanley
Starblanket
Steeves
Stefaniuk
Stefanson
Steinberg
Steiner
Stevens
Stewart
Stockley
Strachan
Strand
Strickland
Stuckless
Sturge
Suderman
Sullivan
Sun
Sutherland
Sutton
Svoboda
Szabo

T: 43 names

Tagoona
Tait
Tam
Tang
Tanner
Tasaka
Taverner
Taylor
Teichroeb
Teixeira
Tesfaye
Tessier
Thériault
Thibault
Thiessen
Thomas
Thompson
Thornton
Thorson
Thorsteinson
Tilley
Tizzard
Tkachuk
Tobin
Toews
Toor
Tootoo
Tootoosis
Toth
Tran
Tremblay
Trites
Trudeau
Tse
Tucker
Tuininga
Tulk
Tulugak
Tunnillie
Tupper
Turcotte
Turnbull
Turner

U: 3 names

Unger
Uppal
Urquhart

V: 18 names

Van Dyk
Vanalstine
Vandenberg
Vanderkooi
Vandermeer
Vanderveen
Vardy
Varga
Veenstra
Veinot
Verigin
Verma
Vermette
Villanueva
Villeneuve
Virk
Virtanen
Vokey

W: 44 names

Wagner
Waldner
Walker
Wall
Wallace
Walsh
Wamboldt
Wang
Warawa
Warford
Warkentin
Wasylenko
Watson
Watt
Wawryk
Weagle
Weber
Wells
Wemigwans
Wentzell
Wheeler
Whelan
Whiskeyjack
White
Whynot
Wiebe
Wiersma
Wilkinson
Williams
Wilson
Winsor
Winter
Wipf
Wiseman
Wong
Wood
Woodward
Wortman
Wowk
Woytowich
Wozniak
Wright
Wurz
Wuttunee

X: 1 name

Y: 10 names

Yakimchuk
Yang
Yaremko
Yee
Yetman
Yeung
Yip
Young
Yuen
Yurkiw

Z: 10 names

Zacharias
Zaharia
Zaharko
Zelinski
Zhang
Ziegler
Zimmerman
Zinck
Zwicker
Zylstra